Video: 'Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids - Episode 1'
(Saturday, September 9, 1972, 12:30 p.m. EDT) — Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, an animated television series created, produced, and hosted (in live action bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, based on Cosby’s remembrances of his childhood gang, debuted today on CBS-TV.
Video: 'Comedy Playhouse - Are You Being Served? (Pilot)'
(Friday, September 8, 1972) — Are You Being Served?, a British sitcom set in the ladies’ and gentlemen’s clothing departments of Grace Brothers, a large, fictional London department store, debuted tonight on BBC1 in the form of a pilot for the series Comedy Playhouse. It starred Frank Thornton, Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Wendy Richard and Nicholas Smith.
Video: 'ABC News 1972 Munich massacre coverage'
(Wednesday, September 6, 1972) — Athletes and officials from the competing nations clogged the Olympic Stadium today in a memorial service for slain members of the Israeli team, but International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage said the terror would not disrupt the 20th Summer Games. Continue reading Memorial service held for murdered Israeli athletes, Olympic Games resume 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: 'The New Price Is Right - episode 01 - VTR Aug 19th 1972'
(Monday, September 4, 1972, Labor Day, 10:30 a.m. EDT) — The (New) Price Is Right, a game show that revolved around contestants competing to identify the pricing of merchandise to win cash and prizes, debuted today on CBS-TV (taped Aug. 19, 1972, at CBS Television City in Hollywood) with Bob Barker as host.
Video: 'The Joker's Wild - First Episode 1972'
(Monday, September 4, 1972, Labor Day, 10:00 a.m. EDT) — The Joker’s Wild, a game show where contestants answered questions based on categories that were determined randomly by a mechanism resembling a slot machine, debuted today on CBS-TV (taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood) with Jack Barry as host (click here to watch the entire first episode).
Video: 'Olympic Ceremony Database - Munich 1972 (Opening Ceremony)'
(Saturday, August 26, 1972, 3:00 p.m. local time, 10 a.m. EDT) — Opening ceremonies for the 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were held today at Olympic Stadium in Munich, West Germany.
It was the second Summer Olympics to be held in Germany, after the 1936 Games in Berlin, which had taken place under the Nazi regime.
Video: 'ABC Evening News' (Aug. 23, 1972)
(Wednesday, August 23, 1972, 6:00 p.m. EDT) — As President Richard M. Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew prepared to accept their renominations, thousands of protesters converged today on Miami to try to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Continue reading Thousands of protesters attempt to disrupt Republican convention 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: ABC News (Aug. 23, 1972)
(Wednesday, August 23, 1972, 4:45 a.m. EDT) — A hostage drama that began yesterday at a Chase Manhattan Bank in Brooklyn, N.Y., ended this morning when John Wojtowicz was arrested and Salvatore Naturile was killed by the FBI at New York’s Kennedy Airport. The incident inspired the movie Dog Day Afternoon.
Video: Nixon attends youth rally with Davis (at 1:47)
(Tuesday, August 22, 1972, evening) — Entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., grabbed a startled U.S. President Richard Nixon from behind and squeezed his arms while Nixon talked to about 8,000 of his youthful supporters at a youth rally tonight in Miami, Florida. Continue reading Nixon renominated, embraced by Sammy Davis, Jr. 40 years ago tonight (1972)
Video: 'Come Together' (Aug. 22, 1972)
(Tuesday, August 22, 1972) — Ex-Beatle John Lennon continued rehearsing today at Butterfly Studios in New York City for the “One to One” benefit concerts for children with mental challenges, scheduled for Madison Square Garden on Aug. 30.
